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Kelli King-Jackson

Woman | Wife | Mom | Friend | Advocate

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Kelli is non-profit strategist, consultant and public speaker with a passion for advocacy, community outreach and training. She has spent more than 15 years engaged in nonprofit advocacy work around issues such as access to health care, community engagement, and youth leadership.

Kelli has delivered presentations and workshops to audiences, including: America’s Promise Alliance, Families USA, National Children's Health Summit, The University of Texas Law School Nonprofit Organizations Institute, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and the Texas Association of School Administrator’s.

Kelli believes that “a healthy community includes responsive, strategic partnerships between individuals, nonprofits, businesses and schools. No one group can create productive citizens alone.” With this end in mind, Kelli has made it her life’s work to help support groundbreaking outreach and partnership models.

Kelli is a social media aficionado who enjoys reading, politics and spending time with family and friends.

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My daughter has feared police for a long time. Every time a cop would drive past or pull alongside us at a stop light she would get panicky. I would shake my head and dismissively ask her what was wrong. Her response was always that the police scared her; mine was that she was doing nothing wrong so she had nothing to fear. In our family, like many other Black families, we spent more time talking to our son about what he should and should not do when stopped by a police officer (he never listened but that is an entirely different blog post). It never crossed our mind's that our well-behaved,...

“Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don't have the means To rise above and beat it So we keep waiting Waiting on the world to change.” John Mayer – Waiting on the World to Change I kind of love John Mayer. I mean yes, he sings with conviction and plays a mean guitar. But it’s really the lyrics that I love. John’s lyrics are authentic which allows him to connect to his audience, his generation, in a powerful way. Whether his audience has front row seats, sits in the nosebleed section or watches video clips made on mobile phones...